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Dear Koreanists
You are warmly invited to the following Asian Studies seminar:
Dr Nuri Kim (University Assistant Professor in Korean Studies, University of Cambridge)
Making God: Korean, Japanese, and American Religious Fantasies in Early Twentieth-Century Korea
Chair: Dr Holly Stephens, University of Edinburgh
Discussant: Dr Ian Astley, University of Edinburgh
Wednesday, 27 Oct. 4 - 6 pm (UK time)
1:30 am Adelaide, 12 am Korea
Please register in advance for this lecture:
https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/.../tZ0sceGtrDMoGdxddshkK0oc5w...
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Making God: Korean, Japanese, and American Religious Fantasies in Early Twentieth-Century Korea
In this talk, Dr. Nuri Kim traces how various religious projections by Koreans, Japanese, and Americans intersected in the early twentieth century to contribute to the making of a new deity. In particular, Dr. Kim focuses on the figure of Tan’gun, Korea’s mythical founding father, who was furnished with an increasing number of attributes thanks to the imaginations by various groups. While these all had their own agendas, they also intersected with and drew inspiration from one another. In tracing this history, the talk highlights the complexity of religious knowledge at a time when Korea’s spiritual heritage was the object of much contest and negotiations.
Dr. Nuri Kim is University Assistant Professor in Korean Studies at the University of Cambridge. A historian of modern Korea, he has centred his research around new religious movements, historiography, and the history of knowledge. Prior to his current position, Dr. Kim was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and later also at Johns Hopkins University where he developed and taught several courses on Korean history, religion, and culture, including film, literature, and digital games, in addition to courses and programs on the broader East Asian region.
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Please register in advance for this lecture:
https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/.../tZ0sceGtrDMoGdxddshkK0oc5w...
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Making God: Korean, Japanese, and American Religious Fantasies in Early Twentieth-Century Korea
In this talk, Dr. Nuri Kim traces how various religious projections by Koreans, Japanese, and Americans intersected in the early twentieth century to contribute to the making of a new deity. In particular, Dr. Kim focuses on the figure of Tan’gun, Korea’s mythical founding father, who was furnished with an increasing number of attributes thanks to the imaginations by various groups. While these all had their own agendas, they also intersected with and drew inspiration from one another. In tracing this history, the talk highlights the complexity of religious knowledge at a time when Korea’s spiritual heritage was the object of much contest and negotiations.
Dr. Nuri Kim is University Assistant Professor in Korean Studies at the University of Cambridge. A historian of modern Korea, he has centred his research around new religious movements, historiography, and the history of knowledge. Prior to his current position, Dr. Kim was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and later also at Johns Hopkins University where he developed and taught several courses on Korean history, religion, and culture, including film, literature, and digital games, in addition to courses and programs on the broader East Asian region.
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